Hoe while it is spring, and enjoy the best anticipations. It is not much matter if things do not turn out well.

Mud-pies gratify one of our first and best instincts. So long as we are dirty, we are pure.

Regrets are idle; yet history is one long regret. Everything might have turned out so differently.

The stranger who receives the rare gift of human kindness holds its value in his heart forever.

I do not know the names of all the weeds and plants, I have to do as Adam did in his garden... name things as I find them.

It is fortunate that each generation does not comprehend its own ignorance. We are thus enabled to call our ancestors barbarous.

Goodness comes out of people who bask in the sun, as it does out of a sweet apple roasted before the fire.